Word: upshot
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...detached from the Queen's gowns. Byrne searched for visual cues in seminal books like Janet Arnold's Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd, a recent Elizabethan exhibition at London's National Maritime Museum and Balenciaga's designs from the 1940s, which referenced 16th century Spanish court painting. The upshot: sumptuous fabrics and rich beading...
...control of Thailand last year, they ripped up the previous constitution. The replacement rolls back the executive branch's influence and calls for nearly half the senate to be appointed instead of elected as before. The military is also given certain supervisory powers over the democratically elected leader. The upshot: Thailand could soon return to days when weak coalition governments rose and fell with the predictability of the monsoons...
...idea at the time: needing to fly back to California from Asia after a business trip, just before flying off to Asia from California on another trip, I would spend as little time as possible on the ground so I wouldn't have to change my body clock. The upshot, however, on the calendar, is that I wake up one Sunday in Bali and find myself on Monday in Sydney. On Tuesday (as it seems to me) I'm in California. On Thursday I'm on my way to Singapore, and on Saturday I'm in Delhi. By the following...
...That's the upshot of the move by President George W. Bush to commute Libby's 30-month sentence for lying about having leaked the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame. Commutation is significantly less sweeping than a pardon, which would have wiped out Libby's conviction and left him in the position of essentially never having been charged...
...training thousands of times on the ground, all these different vaults, all this precision." Parkour websites post daily homework in the form of push-ups and other exercises, and some veterans urge "noobies" not to show up for training sessions until they can run a good three miles. The upshot: poseurs don't last long...